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@Vermeullarmine @iusetiustitium @SohrabAhmari @PatrickDeneen others have been indispensable for recovering the intellectual framework of the common good, government power, classical law, integralism, etc. and shoeing how far we have strayed under a liberalism.
They have shown neutral liberalism makes no sense except as a cover under which to bring the new gods. Everyone wants the common good, as they understand it; they have explained why our liberal common good makes little sense in their various important works
Conservatives pretend "limited" government means "powerless" so they lose using one engine of change. They also think they can build an alternative "culture" forgetting that we all live in the same political society. each informs the others. Lost again.
I hope 2021 moves this discussion to a historical level, which is how many ppl understand and can compare things. Perhaps a conference formed around the common good and historical structures, but
compares, say, current Hungary, 50s, Ireland, 1920s America,, Wilberforce England, Salazar's Portugal, and explain how their systems further the common good, that all understood the common good in a way consistent with the tradition, how classical legal tradition furthered that
common good, and how it deviated because of human sin but had better ways to control than sin than say, we do now. It is right to say that having a EPA is consistent with the common good, a different thing to say how to implement Laudato Si in a pluralist country
I am more of a historian than a theorist so once I get the theoretical point I move to "ok, so how does it work with sinful people and does the C have those tools? if not, which countries did and which did those countries at those times get things wrong?"
Please send me to obvious resources I have missed! Thanks.
